As Jews flee Europe, the sneering media admonished again

posted at 10:41 am on July 30, 2014 by Noah Rothman

The eruption of conflict this month between Israeli Defense Forces and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip has brought the worst out of some Europeans (and a few Americans, too).

Thousands of Germans took to the streets of Berlin where they apparently sought out a fight with the city’s Jews and Israeli sympathizers: “Jew, Jew, cowardly pig, come on out and fight on your own,” they reportedly chanted.

In Italy, the resurgence of anti-Semitism is not even thinly veiled as protesters vandalized Jewish-owned businesses and synagogues. “ Phrases like ‘Anne Frank Was a Liar,’ ‘Dirty Jews,’ ‘Jews your end is near,’ and ‘Israel executioner’ were written in spray paint alongside Celtic crosses and rows and rows of swastikas,” the Daily Beast reported.

“Thousands had gathered to demonstrate against the Israeli bombardment of Gaza. But the protest soon turned violent – and against Jews in general,” read a Newsweek cover story datelined France. “Two weeks later, 400 protesters attacked a synagogue and Jewish-owned businesses in Sarcelles, in the north of Paris, shouting “Death to the Jews”. Posters had even advertised the raid in advance, like the pogroms of Tsarist Russia.”

The headlines from the Old World leads one to wonder just how committed the West is to ensuring that the human experience of the mid-20th Century is “never again” permitted to occur. At least, that is what the unsophisticated rabble would think. Fortunately, our erudite superiors in the press corps know better – or, at least, they knew better just a few weeks ago when the consensus opinion was to mock and deride those who are conscious of the tides of history.

Take, for example, Virginia economics professor Dave Brat who had the temerity to campaign vigorously for Congress and unseat former Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) in a primary. The tea party candidate’s victory immediately consecrated Cantor to the pantheon of reasonable and rational Republicans. As Jack Shafer observed, this is an honor the media more often bestows posthumously. The second immediate effect of Cantor’s loss was the familiar effort to impugn the motives, character, and intellectual capacity of his successor.

This instinct was demonstrated by former Politico reporter and current Wall Street Journal scribe Reid Epstein whose filed a report on Brat the day after his victory centering on what was framed as his bizarre conviction that the rise of a fascist strongman in Europe “could all happen again.”

David Brat, the Virginia Republican who shocked House Majority Leader Eric Cantor(R., Va.) Tuesday, wrote in 2011 that Hitler’s rise “could all happen again, quite easily.”

Mr. Brat’s remarks, in a 2011 issue of Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology, came three years before he defeated the only Jewish Republican in Congress.

“They’re suggesting Brat is pro-Hitler?” an incredulous Ace of Ace of Spades asked. “How else can one read their noting that Brat said that Hitler could rise again, and then mention that in reference to the defeat of the GOP’s only Jewish Congressmen as if they’re linked?”

Possibly. More likely the entire report was designed to serve as an unspoken shibboleth, a secret handshake, signifying that Brat was different. Provincial, paranoid, traditional – this report was meant to convey the impression that Brat is the kind of person who watches History Channel for the scant remaining programming devoted to abridged and simplistic history.

Brat’s “reference to Hitler’s Germany that is likely to turn heads during Mr. Brat’s first full day as a tea party star,” Epstein assured his readers. It did not, save for a few swivel-mounted crania in effete circles on the coasts. In fact, it was implied sneering at the academic assertion that a Hitlerian figure could again emerge, a claim vindicated by so many recent events, which irked Epstein’s readers more.

Another of Brat’s sins revealed in that report was his claim that private charity, capitalism, and Western religious culture can and should augment many of the current services provided by taxpayer-funded safety net programs. Brat added that Western Christian and capitalist traditions can buttress society so that government need not “backstop every action we take.” This led the philosophers at Think Progress to dub Brat a “radically pro-capitalist Christian theologian.”

Maybe those intellectually superior members of the journalistic class should take a lesson from alleged theocrats like Brat. He seems to have a better grasp on history than do his detractors.

Europe is a sick, sick place. They’ve never recovered from WWII. They’re committing slow cultural suicide by admitting millions and millions of Muslims into their countries, they say nothing when those Muslims commit atrocities and admit their intention to take over Europe. They persecute any European who dares speak the truth about what’s happening. They suffer from a deep cultural guilt that is paralyzing them. It’s bizarre. Perhaps blaming the Jews is a way to vent their anger without offending what should be the real targets, Muslims and their own ruling class.

Behold, a day is coming for the LORD when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you. 2For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be captured, the houses plundered, the women ravished and half of the city exiled, but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city. 3Then the LORD will go forth and fight against those nations, as when He fights on a day of battle.…

I don’t care what anyone says. I like this Rothman guy. He’s spot on about the topic of this post, too. Who would have thought we’d again see the rise of anti-semitism in Europe in our lifetimes? Oh, that’s right: Anyone actually paying attention to the left.

“Triumph of the Return” – On September 4, 2003, in a large ceremony, the Israeli Air Force flew three f-15 jets over the Auschwitz concentration camp in a show of the Jewish people’s continued strength and triumph over past adversities.
During the Holocaust (1939-1945) 6 million Jews were murdered at the hands of the Nazis and their collaborators. Millions of Jews and other victims of the Nazis were imprisoned, enslaved and murdered at Auschwitz and her sister camps.
This visit was a testament to the world that the saying “never again” is not just a slogan.
Many of the participants were the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors.

I don’t care what anyone says. I like this Rothman guy. He’s spot on about the topic of this post, too. Who would have thought we’d again see the rise of anti-semitism in Europe in our lifetimes? Oh, that’s right: Anyone actually paying attention to the left.

I find it pretty much impossible to feel sympathetic. European (and American for that matter) Jews pushed hard for multiculturalism. Enjoy the spoils.

Darth Executor on July 30, 2014 at 10:54 AM

It’s a perennial problem for the Jews. They try hard to assimilate into the culture and are hated anyway. No matter how left wing the Jews become, the American and European left is never going to love and will always view them as Jews, even if they side with the left against Israel.

With that being said, these anti-semtitic attacks on Jews in Europe and the US is totally disgusting, and exposes the left as the loathesome bigots that they really are.

Europe is a sick, sick place. They’ve never recovered from WWII. They’re committing slow cultural suicide by admitting millions and millions of Muslims into their countries, they say nothing when those Muslims commit atrocities and admit their intention to take over Europe. They persecute any European who dares speak the truth about what’s happening. They suffer from a deep cultural guilt that is paralyzing them. It’s bizarre. Perhaps blaming the Jews is a way to vent their anger without offending what should be the real targets, Muslims and their own ruling class.

Charlemagne on July 30, 2014 at 10:53 AM

Even sicker…Leftists who inculcate our students into the delusional belief that America should seek answers in Europe.

This is why the class conflicts of Europe won’t work for long here in the US…But the Fascists will try…They always try….

Thousands of Germans took to the streets of Berlin where they apparently sought out a fight with the city’s Jews and Israeli sympathizers: “Jew, Jew, cowardly pig, come on out and fight on your own,” they reportedly chanted.

I am truly amazed that there could be a single Jew left in Germany to harass.

If it’s all muslim yoots then the other people of Europe need to turn on them, if they don’t then they’re guilty too.

Europeans knew what the Nazis were doing, they knew people entered those camps but never left, they knew that six million people “resettled” in the east would require dozens of gigantic new cities to be built which was impossible. They knew then and they know now what is happening so no frickin excuses.

Behold, a day is coming for the LORD when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you. 2For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be captured, the houses plundered, the women ravished and half of the city exiled, but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city. 3Then the LORD will go forth and fight against those nations, as when He fights on a day of battle.…

workingclass artist on July 30, 2014 at 10:55 AM

So, what does this even mean? The LORD will organize all the muzzies to war against Israel, Jerusalem will be captured, plundered and raped by Hamas and the rest of the muzzies, and then the LORD will go in and wipe out the muzzies?

What does Netanyahu think about that happening? Why is he even fighting back, if this is Israel’s fate anyway?

They may see themselves as “intellectually superior members of the journalist class” in Europe, but at least they’re not “television personalities,” and they’re certainly not from Alaska, according to the Protocols of some Feller named Rathman.

Muslims commit half the rapes in Europe, and Eurotrash attacks Jews for… defending themselves on another continent. Considered in terms of this happening in NATO -and there are no two ways around that- it’s even more disheartening.

Who are these rioters? I wonder if they are all muslims. I would hope Europeans would know better. I read the European Jews are coming here for sanctuary. Apparently they don’t know we have an anti-semitic government.

I find it pretty much impossible to feel sympathetic. European (and American for that matter) Jews pushed hard for multiculturalism. Enjoy the spoils.

Darth Executor on July 30, 2014 at 10:54 AM

Multiculturalism and the mass immigration of Muslims, were driven by European leftists but not Jews. Jews are a very tiny minority in Europe (and here). A few visible Jewish idiots does not a Jewish-led movement make. There simply aren’t enough there to make any difference one way or the other on any of these issues — primarily as so many were intentionally wiped out in my grandfather’s lifetime. Jews have just learned, the hard way, that you try to go along with where you are and pray for the best. Doesn’t seem to help, but it is what it is. Even then, not all jews are lefties. I would know, as I’m Jewish and conservative.

They use the ‘end times prophecy’ excuse as justification, but as Phillip Klein wrote in his great article, it’s God’s love/promises to his chosen people that is the basis for Christian’s unconditional support. AmeriCuda on July 30, 2014 at 11:16 AM

Well yeah, because in the novel scenario popularized by the Scofield Reference Bible Novel, er, Notes, prophecies that were fulfilled 2k years ago are projected into our future. In some of those prophecies the nation of Israel (of 2k years ago) takes it in the neck hard.

it’s all muslim yoots then the other people of Europe need to turn on them, if they don’t then they’re guilty too.

Europeans knew what the Nazis were doing, they knew people entered those camps but never left, they knew that six million people “resettled” in the east would require dozens of gigantic new cities to be built which was impossible. They knew then and they know now what is happening so no frickin excuses.

Bishop on July 30, 2014 at 11:08 AM

You are quite right. The average European is indifferent to what is going on in the Middle East. They only care about their four to six weeks vacation every year.It’s not just the Jews,they don’t give a rats ass about the Christian’s suffering either.

It’s not like the Jews behead people, set off bombs in foreign lands, pilot planes into buildings, bomb school buses…they are Jews, that’s it, just people who believe in the Jewish faith.

I just don’t get it…okay, dislike the religion, dislike their accent, dislike that they are so successful…but take to the streets, deface their synagogues? Honestly, I just don’t get it.

right2bright on July 30, 2014 at 11:23 AM

People love to hate other people. The Jews are an easy target since they’re dismissed by the left as a white, colonialist, oppressor class, combined with the conspiracy theories about them “controlling the world.” The Israeli-Palestianian conflict gives a further excuse.

Every Jew I know adores evangelicals, but there is a distinction the poll misses. Not all evangelicals believe the same things.

Evangelicals who believe in multiple covenants? You do your thing, we do ours? Our best buds in the world. We appreciate and genuinely respect them. My Rabbi didn’t even blink when my best man was an evangelical (no joke). I have personally led multiple excisions through Israel for groups of them. Not for cash, just because they are awesome, and there were getting taken advantage of by dodgy tour groups. Even snuck one large group into an army controlled area where historically several interesting things were said to have happened from a new testament perspective. No big whoop to us, but they were on cloud nine.

But there are 2 other types that I can’t deal with.

Like, 1) Evangelicals who spend their every waking moment looking to “save me”. For some reason saving a Jew is a big deal to those guys and they are relentless. You can’t have a single conversation that does not stray into sin and Jews needing to “come home”. I can’t stand to be around them. Then there is 2) the evangelicals who believe that by not following Christ we are the greatest sinners of all. Like the preacher who called me a Christ killer in the middle of the service at his church when I was a young boy (I had been on a sleep-over with my friend).

Both of those types call themselves evangelical too. And no, I cant say as I want to be around them.

Bottom line: That poll doesn’t cover these differences, so don’t let it stress you at all. We love you guys, we truly do. :)

Multiculturalism and the mass immigration of Muslims, were driven by European leftists but not Jews. Jews are a very tiny minority in Europe (and here). A few visible Jewish idiots does not a Jewish-led movement make. There simply aren’t enough there to make any difference one way or the other on any of these issues — primarily as so many were intentionally wiped out in my grandfather’s lifetime. Jews have just learned, the hard way, that you try to go along with where you are and pray for the best. Doesn’t seem to help, but it is what it is. Even then, not all jews are lefties. I would know, as I’m Jewish and conservative.

Irritable Pundit on July 30, 2014 at 11:16 AM

I never said they were the strongest force behind it, what I actually said is that most of them supported this. I am skeptical that they have as little influence as you claim though seeing how France almost had a Jewish president.

Both of those types call themselves evangelical too. And no, I cant say as I want to be around them.

Bottom line: That poll doesn’t cover these differences, so don’t let it stress you at all. We love you guys, we truly do. :)

Irritable Pundit on July 30, 2014 at 11:36 AM

That’s okay, I suppose if I wanted to, I could pick out two stereotypes of Jews I don’t like and can’t stand to be around.

But most of us, we like to look at the bigger picture. First we are from the same biblical base, we are Abrahamic religions. So we have that very much in common, as are the Mormon’s, and ironically Muslims.

Second, the “judgement” of people because of religion is overrated, most do not judge people based on how they worship, but how they act.

And finally, Christians relish in Christ’s martyrdom, and Jew – their own…so that we have that in common.

Let me know when entire Jewish neighborhoods are being leveled by shelling from above. Or when the only power plant servicing a Jewish enclave is destroyed. Or when UN backed schools are being bombed by a foreign military force. Vandalism is always wrong, but there seems to be an attempt by Noah to raise sympathy for one group of unfairly targeted civilians while ignoring other unfairly targeted civilians. And the later group are actually being killed by the hundreds, rather than seeing ugly spray paint or having their windows broken. But I know, I know, I know, Palestinians were told to leave beforehand or something…

It’s a perennial problem for the Jews. They try hard to assimilate into the culture and are hated anyway.

Not true. It’s impossible to both assimilate and remain a distinct ethno-religious group. If Jews assimilated they wouldn’t be Jews anymore.

No matter how left wing the Jews become, the American and European left is never going to love and will always view them as Jews, even if they side with the left against Israel.

I’m not sure what you mean by “become”, Jews (particularly in Europe, but since European Jewish refugees overwhelmend America’s pre-existing Jewish communities, this has become the case in the US as well) have been heavily involved in left wing movements long before modern times (and well before the Holocaust for that matter). There’s a reason why anti-semitism has traditionally been associated with the right. Heavy Jewish involvement in Soviet Russia and other communist and socialist movements is part of why he was so effective in stirring up hatred against Jews. I’m also skeptical that the left hates Jews all that much. In France it’s illegal to deny the holocaust and making racist statements is illegal and can get you SWATted.

With that being said, these anti-semtitic attacks on Jews in Europe and the US is totally disgusting, and exposes the left as the loathesome bigots that they really are.

Doomberg on July 30, 2014 at 11:01 AM

That’s a simplistic view, particularly in Europe where things are a lot more complex than X-wing hates Jews and Y-wing loves Jews. This picture is hard to get by people from Anglo countries because anglo right-wingers tend to like Jews whereas non-Anglo right wingers don’t. In most of europe Jews are attached to the left, but Muslims are also attached to the left. Muslims don’t get along with Jews or Right wingers, but Jews and the Right don’t get along with each other either, nor do muslims and right wingers. Alliances of convenience can form randomly and with no discernible overreaching pattern.

Middle-aged woman with little $$$, a few mild med problems, and not a hell of a ot of marketable skills.
I’ve got 25 years customer service experience-and i can sing-but I’d still end up in an absorption center for 6 months.
In otherwords-I’d be spending at least a little time being supported by the government/aid.

Both of those types call themselves evangelical too. And no, I cant say as I want to be around them.

Bottom line: That poll doesn’t cover these differences, so don’t let it stress you at all. We love you guys, we truly do. :)

Irritable Pundit on July 30, 2014 at 11:36 AM

Christianity in general and evangelical Christianity in particular considers evangelizing a huge part of its religion. If you don’t like conversion attempts, you don’t like evangelicals, unless, apparently, they act in contradiction to their faith. Plus, if you’re a (politically) conservative Jew, you’re in the minority and probably not a good sample of what the average Jew likes and doesn’t like to begin with.

Like, 1) Evangelicals who spend their every waking moment looking to “save me”. For some reason saving a Jew is a big deal to those guys and they are relentless. You can’t have a single conversation that does not stray into sin and Jews needing to “come home”. I can’t stand to be around them. Then there is 2) the evangelicals who believe that by not following Christ we are the greatest sinners of all. Like the preacher who called me a Christ killer in the middle of the service at his church when I was a young boy (I had been on a sleep-over with my friend).

Both of those types call themselves evangelical too. And no, I cant say as I want to be around them.

Bottom line: That poll doesn’t cover these differences, so don’t let it stress you at all. We love you guys, we truly do. :)

Irritable Pundit on July 30, 2014 at 11:36 AM

That’s been the Catholic position for centuries. Yet it’s Protestant evangelicals who get Jewish disdain. And while you may personally love evangelicals, Jews as a group do indeed hold them in contempt. I think the root reason is that evangelicals actually do believe in what they profess to believe in.

See my comment above about prophecy. Many fundy prots in America believe that 1/3 of the Jews in Israel will be wiped out in a future war and, in light of that, are even working to help Jews emigrate there without any notion of irony.

Roman Catholics, Anglicans, Orthodox, Reformed, Lutherans, basically most Christians in the world, do not believe this baloney if they ever even heard of it.

Let me know when entire Jewish neighborhoods are being leveled by shelling from above. Or when the only power plant servicing a Jewish enclave is destroyed. Or when UN backed schools are being bombed by a foreign military force. Vandalism is always wrong, but there seems to be an attempt by Noah to raise sympathy for one group of unfairly targeted civilians while ignoring other unfairly targeted civilians. And the later group are actually being killed by the hundreds, rather than seeing ugly spray paint or having their windows broken. But I know, I know, I know, Palestinians were told to leave beforehand or something…

libfreeordie on July 30, 2014 at 12:01 PM

Guess that’s what happens when you keep lobbing rockets at your neighbor, digging tunnels to terrorize the neighbor, keeping weapons stored and fired from civilian areas and not letting the civilians leave after they have been warned.

Roman Catholics, Anglicans, Orthodox, Reformed, Lutherans, basically most Christians in the world, do not believe this baloney if they ever even heard of it.

Akzed on July 30, 2014 at 12:15 PM

Actually though those other groups you mention there think that by rejecting Christ the Jews have made themselves dead meat in God’s eyes, and those Christian groups are now the “new Israel”. Which Jews should find even more repugnant, wouldn’t you say?

Actually though those other groups you mention there think that by rejecting Christ the Jews have made themselves dead meat in God’s eyes, and those Christian groups are now the “new Israel”. Which Jews should find even more repugnant, wouldn’t you say? ddrintn on July 30, 2014 at 12:20 PM

Not at all because, your inflammatory rhetoric aside, everyone needs to be born into the Church to be saved according to Holy Scripture and catholic theology. This means that Jews are as welcome in the Church, and as needful of that welcome, as anyone else: no more, no less.

Someone should do a drive-by on the media organizations, firing guns through their windows and shooting up their offices…when they complain to the police about the attacks they should be told to ‘exercise tolerance’, that they do not have the right to protection against those doing it, and then be told they do not have the right to defend themselves. After it happens about 3 – 4 days in a row it will get old and they will finally understand what Israel is facing. (OF COURSE I AM NOT advocating this to actually be done – giving this scenario to them verbally SHOULD get the point across. I don’t think ‘comprehension’ is the problem, though. The majority of the media is owned by foreign sources these days. I think they DO get it, but they are anti-semitic…seriously!)

Not at all because, your inflammatory rhetoric aside, everyone needs to be born into the Church to be saved according to Holy Scripture and catholic theology. This means that Jews are as welcome in the Church, and as needful of that welcome, as anyone else: no more, no less.

Akzed on July 30, 2014 at 12:33 PM

“Inflammatory rhetoric” in reply to you “inflammatory rhetoric”.

This means that Jews are as welcome in the Church, and as needful of that welcome, as anyone else: no more, no less.

Which sentiment is odious when expressed by evangelicals, for some reason.

What does Netanyahu think about that happening? Why is he even fighting back, if this is Israel’s fate anyway?
Harbingeing on July 30, 2014 at 11:10 AM

That is Israel’s fate at the very end, just before Christ returns to the earth. Christ will return when Israel petitions God for His return. They will go through hell in a handbasket before they realize the lesson that God has been teaching them for many years.

Many fundy prots in America believe that 1/3 of the Jews in Israel will be wiped out in a future war and, in light of that, are even working to help Jews emigrate there without any notion of irony.
Roman Catholics, Anglicans, Orthodox, Reformed, Lutherans, basically most Christians in the world, do not believe this baloney if they ever even heard of it.
Akzed on July 30, 2014 at 12:15 PM

Your first sentence is a demonstration of a basic ignorance of prophecy. I know of no one that believes as you say. OTOH, scripture does say that about the thirds of Israel will be killed just before Christ returns.

The organizations you list hold with replacement theology, which is heretical. As consequence, what you are calling “most Christians” aren’t Christians. If saying this gives you heartburn, I really don’t care. Romans Chapters 9-11 deal with the position of Israel and that the church did not take Israel’s place. God is not through with Israel and promises to her are still as valid as the day God made them, and God will make them good.

But there are 2 other types that I can’t deal with.

Like, 1) Evangelicals who spend their every waking moment looking to “save me”. For some reason saving a Jew is a big deal to those guys and they are relentless. You can’t have a single conversation that does not stray into sin and Jews needing to “come home”. I can’t stand to be around them. Then there is 2) the evangelicals who believe that by not following Christ we are the greatest sinners of all. Like the preacher who called me a Christ killer in the middle of the service at his church when I was a young boy (I had been on a sleep-over with my friend).

Both of those types call themselves evangelical too. And no, I cant say as I want to be around them.

Bottom line: That poll doesn’t cover these differences, so don’t let it stress you at all. We love you guys, we truly do. :)
Irritable Pundit on July 30, 2014 at 11:36 AM

Yes those types are out there. The problem with your irritation with them is that they are correct. Secondly, Jews do hold Christians in contempt, and that was prophesied by a Pharasee known as Saul of Tarsus, otherwise known as the Apostle Paul. There are places in Jewish Israel that Christian can not go without Police escort as they will be assaulted. The Pharasee Party is quite alive and well.

Like it or not, it is the duty of every Christian to Evangelize anyone that is not Christian. Christians have a soft spot in their heart for Jews because they are the People through which Christ came into the world. No Christian wants anyone to spend eternity locked away from God, and that especially applies to the Jew.

We’ll be glad to put up with your irritation if there is a chance that you will become a Christian and not have to spend eternity as above. But, if you reject God’s provision for sin, then your blood is on your own head and you will hear the saddest words anyone could ever hear, “Depart from me, I never knew you.” Christ himself will say those words to you.

Which sentiment is odious when expressed by evangelicals, for some reason. ddrintn on July 30, 2014 at 12:59 PM

No, like I said above at 11:25, it’s the misapplication of biblical prophecy to today’s nation of Israel, that referred solely to the nation of Israel (actually Judah) up to and including the destruction of Jerusalem under Titus in AD 70, that turns off many Jews to evangelical efforts.

Let me know when entire Jewish neighborhoods are being leveled by shelling from above. Or when the only power plant servicing a Jewish enclave is destroyed. Or when UN backed schools are being bombed by a foreign military force. Vandalism is always wrong, but there seems to be an attempt by Noah to raise sympathy for one group of unfairly targeted civilians while ignoring other unfairly targeted civilians. And the later group are actually being killed by the hundreds, rather than seeing ugly spray paint or having their windows broken. But I know, I know, I know, Palestinians were told to leave beforehand or something…

libfreeordie on July 30, 2014 at 12:01 PM

Yeah, paying the price for supporting genocidal fanatics is a b*tch, isn’t it?

No, like I said above at 11:25, it’s the misapplication of biblical prophecy to today’s nation of Israel, that referred solely to the nation of Israel (actually Judah) up to and including the destruction of Jerusalem under Titus in AD 70, that turns off many Jews to evangelical efforts.

Akzed on July 30, 2014 at 1:07 PM

So “Israel” ceased to exist in the year 70, to be “replaced” by the Christian Church. And that, as I said, should “turn off” Jews even more.

Middle-aged woman with little $$$, a few mild med problems, and not a hell of a ot of marketable skills. I’ve got 25 years customer service experience-and i can sing-but I’d still end up in an absorption center for 6 months. In otherwords-I’d be spending at least a little time being supported by the government/aid.

annoyinglittletwerp on July 30, 2014 at 12:03 PM

I can understand how that would be the last thing a conservative person would want. But Israel would take you, and gladly extend the aid, in order to lend a hand to bringing another Jew home. It’s worth considering, even if you have a rough start, given the way things are starting to look in the West. Just my 2 cents, but G-d bless you either way.

Let me know when entire Jewish neighborhoods are being leveled by shelling from above. Or when the only power plant servicing a Jewish enclave is destroyed. Or when UN backed schools are being bombed by a foreign military force. Vandalism is always wrong, but there seems to be an attempt by Noah to raise sympathy for one group of unfairly targeted civilians while ignoring other unfairly targeted civilians. And the later group are actually being killed by the hundreds, rather than seeing ugly spray paint or having their windows broken. But I know, I know, I know, Palestinians were told to leave beforehand or something…

libfreeordie on July 30, 2014 at 12:01 PM

The difference, of course, is that Jews targeted in Europe are, by definition, not Israelis, they are Jews in Europe. This would be akin to American Jews attacking all Arabs in Deerborn, MI – not because they are Palestinian but because they are Muslim.

But, as we all know, you are an idiot, so of course that would escape you.

It mystifies me how so many end up hating Jewish people. How is this still a thing? Are these mostly immigrant Muslims who automatically side with Palestinians? Sometimes you can’t even tell who’s Jewish, so how do people end up hating them?

According to that poll a while back, most religions were pretty neutral towards Jews. I’m curious why it’s so different in Europe. Then again, that same poll suggested Jewish people dislike Evangelicals. Is it because of Medieval history, or is it our current political visibility, or what? The way people react doesn’t make much sense.

Let me know when entire Jewish neighborhoods are being leveled by shelling from aboveused by IDF to launch rocket attacks and store munitions and build tunnels to surreptitiously enter enemy territory. Or when the only power plant servicing a Jewish enclave terrorist army and their terrorist activities is destroyed. Or when UN backed schools are being bombed by a foreign military forceare being used for military purposes, with the express consent of the UN workers there. Vandalism is always wrong, but there seems to be an attempt by Noah to raise sympathy for one group of unfairly targeted civilians while ignoring other unfairly targetedcivilians who elected and support a terrorist government. And the later group are actually being killed by the hundreds, as much by their own government terrorists, rather than seeing ugly spray paint or having their windows broken thousands of rockets aimed at them, not all of them stopped. But I know, I know, I know, Palestinians were told to leave beforehand or something…but their duly elected and supported government threatens them with execution if they try to get to safety.

libfreeordie on July 30, 2014 at 12:01 PM

I thought I’d fix it for you with the truth, something that obviously and consistently evades you.

So “Israel” ceased to exist in the year 70, to be “replaced” by the Christian Church. And that, as I said, should “turn off” Jews even more. ddrintn on July 30, 2014 at 1:20 PM

This is a fact of the gospel, but if someone doesn’t believe the gospel there’s no sense in starting with Theology 202.

Akzed on July 30, 2014 at 2:38 PM

I don’t follow this conversation. “Israel” is a nation in the sense of the people descended from Israel, the man. They were a people group primarily, and a political entity at different times in history.

Those who were descendants of Israel who believed in Christ would not have construed themselves as leaving anything. It was the Gentiles who joined them in what they believed was the fulfillment of God’s promise to Abraham; a blessing that would extend to the whole world. I don’t honestly see how this should offend a Jewish person, except it’s not what they believe.

I’m pretty sure that offense has more to do with later events/interpretations.

I’m not sure how this relates to the subject of the End Times though (I think I saw that mentioned earlier on).